On Tue 10 Apr 2007, Earle Martin openguides@downlode.org wrote: [long names in the list of Guides]
Good question, I don't have a ready answer. If this project starts growing and growing, multi-guide cities will probably get more common (we can dream, can't we?) so this will become a more important question.
In general, the site design isn't too great and all suggestions are appreciated.
If we could get the list of guides into one column, that might help, since then we could make it wider. I think the tricky part is making the list not look like a navigation widget - I think as it stands it succeeds in this, but if we made it longer and thinner then it'd look like a navbar, which would be confusing since people don't expect navbars to take them off the current site.
So I started thinking of ways to make it not look like a navbar. Here's one rough (very rough) sketch: http://the.earth.li/~kake/cgi-bin/tmp/ogsite/page
People on IRC didn't like it, but it's just an idea that may hopefully spark something in someone's mind, so I'm posting it anyway. Inspiration came from here: http://alistapart.com/articles/outsidethegrid
Kake